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[[File:Kaa Book vs movie 6454.jpg|frame| Kaa in Disney's [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Jungle Book]]: a man-eating [[Smug Snake]]. Kaa in the [[The Jungle Book (novel)|original]]: a wise [[Mentor]].]]
{{quote|''"As many people have noted throughout the years though, [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney]] has been rather...[[Disneyfication|lax]] when it comes to adapting books and fairy tales into movies. [[Pragmatic Adaptation|This is understandable in some cases]]. Still, it can be a bit galling when one knows that the fire-breathing, demonic witch on the screen was a kindly old lady in the source material."''
|''[http://zelda-queen.livejournal.com/46445.html Top Five Miscast Disney Villains]''}}
The villain of an adaptation or retelling of a story is a familiar character who wasn't as bad in the source material. Sure, they may have been [[Jerkass|annoying at times]], or [[True Neutral|couldn't care less about the good guys]], but they weren't ''evil''. Maybe they were even an ally of the main characters who leaned a little too far on the [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]], or a villain [[Even Evil Has Standards|with standards]] or who was [[Pet the Dog|known to show a softer side]]. Maybe the character rubbed the heroes the wrong way, but never caused any real harm and was otherwise a decent person.
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* ''[[The Mean One]]'', an (unauthorized) retelling of ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'' with the Grinch as the sociopathic killer; Cindy Lou (as an adult, the plot occurring twenty years after the incident) is the [[Final Girl]].
* The entire plot of ''[[Brightburn]]''. The movie is pretty much the origin of [[Superman]] - had he been evil.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Slugworth is this in ''[[Wonka]]'', plus an [[
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